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It's not just that gay bars are supposed to be a safe space.

Attention 🇨🇦#graduate #Students. Know that at least one 🇨🇦 senator Senator Stan Kutcher is speaking up about wages on your behalf.👏👏 Make your own voice heard: supportourscience.ca

Tools for scheduling the academic-related panic attacks or?

The #2023 season of the Canadian #Bioinformatics #workshops series (CBW aka bit.ly/alSYDS) is now on line, and is ready to receive applicants (Some workshops virtual and others face-2-face this year): bit.ly/3RxEIt1

Toronto voting against 24/7 access to warming centres for the unhoused shows a shocking disregard for basic human dignity, but remember: they spent nearly $2 million in one summer to clear encampments.

We fund what we value. We police what we don't.

With the announcements of grad student stipends increasing (rightfully so), I can’t help but notice that since stipends are not taxed in 🇨🇦, this means that many stipends will pay more than postdocs. As such, people will be taking a pay cut to be a postdoc after grad school. 1/

Very excited to share a Q&A done by Nature on anxiety and depression: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excited to share our work published today in Nature Communications on scATOMIC, a tool for pan-cancer classification of single cells in the tumour microenvironment from scRNA-seq data. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Currently doing this & yikes, yes! ✋🏻 Reframing niche research area to transferrable skills & navigating clunky application interfaces & cold emailing & informative interviews & finding out positions already had someone in mind & were only posting for legal reasons... it's a lot.

"Bullying is a means for mediocre scientists to rise to the top. Some star academics reached their position because they are bullies, not in spite of it." - Excellent piece about bullying in academia (and really any other professional environment). nature.com/articles/s4156…

My lab mate Jonathan Patrick Broadbent has an exciting talk coming up at London Calling!

New achievement unlocked: influenced a code change in pylance/VS Visual Studio Code because my python script started reciting the Zen of Python one day github.com/microsoft/pyla…

Curious about where the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops have been and where we're going? Check out this interview with Dr. David Wishart of the David S. Wishart, one of our most senior faculty (he's taught for us for more than 20 years!), and our Program Manager Nia Hughes.

Looking for where to start learning about #bioinformatics? Start with our free access collection of introductory bioinformatics ebi.ac.uk/training/onlin… #openaccess #datascience #datamanagement #computationalbiology

The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

I’ve been frustrated at the infantilisation of faculty. Articles like this, depts making decisions to avoid meltdowns of Sr faculty, they’re from a diff era, etc. if faculty are as smart as they claim, then they are capable of learning how to manage themselves and their emotions.

pPL ARe RefUsiNg HOuSiNg OfFeRs This is my housing offer. Bedbug carcasses everywhere. At least two dead cockroaches. They fumigate 1 unit @ a time. I’d be eaten by pests for the rest of my life The door to the unit had damage from someone trying to break in.